Artificial Intelligence: contested definitions

Abstract

In this article we present a very preliminary approach to a set of definitions and perspectives in relation to Artificial Intelligence (AI), its history, its real or potential consequences at different levels: social, economic, ideological, ethical. In relation to the research project in which this work is inserted, entitled Artificial Intelligence. Exploration of currently available social studies (based at National University of Villa María), here we include above all a set of criteria and points of view related to the conceptual definition and the evaluative, axiological evaluation of AI. Throughout the decades-long history of AI, from the founding milestone of Dartmouth in the middle of the last century to the present day, this technological development has generated diverse positions and expectations. We think that before taking a definite position, it is necessary to study them in their diversity; This article is part of that objective.